Video Immunity, 1978, b/w, 4 min.

The video was recorded with camera attached in place of the water-spray in a shower. The artist gets into the tub under the camera and undergoes the ritual of Âťvotive ablutionÂŤ exposing his body to the camera as if he were under the shower. Otherwise than the shower which cleans the body by means of a stream of water, the videocamera transforms the body into a television picture consisting of a stream of electrons. According to the Bible, ritual ablutions give a man his name, whereas, according to the Indian creed, taking a photograph bereaves him of his soul.